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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Ian C.Sison wrote:
> >
> > It may be old but it serves its purpose. It has a well-defined extension
> > architecture (remember XVideo? GLX? DGA?) and it is a standard. Try to
> > bring in another GUI standard and all the vendors will be jumping over
> > each other trying to leverage their proprietary technologies.
>
> Methinks now is not the time for another GUI standard. Now is the time to take
> the codebase of X, cut out all the fat, the never used features, FORGET
> compliance with that watyamacallit X consortium, and plain and simply keep the
> focus: Desktop GUI. No more fancy stuff like remote X connections which aren't
> really used, and who's functionality can be duplicated with programs like VNC.
>
Well, remote X connections *are* used. I use them for one. And to be
frank, I don't think that is what's slowing X down and bloating it too
much. It's just not done *right* under X. And using VNC to do the same
would be painfully slow, at least from my understanding of the way VNC
works. Try transmitting a true-color 1280x1024 screen across the network
and see what "meltdown" really means. We had a chance with Sun's
experiments with NeWS, but that never really caught on. A display
PostScript could be just what we need (and last I heard, someone was
writing a free one for the GNUStep project...what the hell is happening
there?).
> This i fear i can never see happen to Linux. Not unless X is re-engneered and
> optimized for PURELY desktop functionality.
>
Reengineered and optimized yes. But not purely for desktop functionality.
It's not X's client-server architecture that causes it to bloat. It's the
cruft that comes from its heritage that bloats it.
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